Particular as Pathway

The faces wash past on the city street

infinitely varied but somehow all the same

in the blinking blur of an indifferent eye.

I am looking for that one familiar face that

will give all the others meaning as well,

the particular as pathway to the whole.

When I see it coalesce from the swirl

of humanity a bright spot forms in my 

otherwise dreary and dead existence.

It’s a focus that longs for connection, to be 

tethered to someone that keeps me from

floating off into the isolation of space.


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